Brittany

Last updated: 5-30-09
Okay-"About Me"...My name is Brittany. I'm 22 years old. I live in and love New Orleans. I write, paint, and I eat a lot of ice cream/cookies/chocolate in general.
I'm an artist. I paint oils on canvas and acrylics and am learning new mediums. I write-mostly fiction, short stories, and a novel idea I've been hammering out for some time now.I recently started writing on a website-ask me for a link if you want! I love to learn about new things, places, people, and so on. I am constantly learning, and think everyone should be.
I love NOLA, and spend a fair amount of time in the French Quarter. It is beautiful here. I like to travel too, so I have little expeditions sometimes to new and exciting places. Recently I went to Costa Rica, which I loved! I'm traveling within the country this summer, and hope to be overseas again within the next couple years.
I am currently in a relationship with a man I like more and more. :-) I've been in some dating things over the last few years, and I'm looking forward to being in something commited again.
I go to UNO and am loving my English major. I am between jobs right now, but normally I wait tables. And I work at Hallmark in the Clearview mall also. I get a good discount....
I live alone in a one-bedroom apartment in uptown, which is nice. I even have a little studio area set up so I can paint anytime. :-) I have taken to my kitchen very well, and cook a few nights a week. This has been profitable in many ways-learning new recipes, new wines, and having much fun.
I love reading (but now I am mostly reading school books, so I get no choice in reading material). I read comic books, but less so these days: Fables, Sandman, and some things by Alan Moore. Getting into more political writings, and always up to learn a new author that is worth some attention. I'm almost done with my first trip through the Harry Potter novels, and have many reading goals for the summer! I enjoy watching cartoons. Home Movies, Family Guy, South Park, Aqua Teen, Futurama, Batman, and Justice League are some of my favs. I am also a big movie fan. There are way too many to list, so I won't try.
I am online less and less-I come online now to check my email, my facebook, my prefered comics and watch TV. I don't have cable, and I'm not going to be getting cable. I don't watch enough TV to merit it. Plus-between abc.com, southparkstudios.com and hulu, I'm covered.
My friends are my family, for the most part. I have some amazing people in my life, and I am truly fortunate in my friends. I'm pretty friendly (I think...) so if you want to be friends-lemme know! :-)
I think that is a pretty good sum-up of what I'm about....check my blog for more info!
I'm magic730dreams on livejournal, but I post most of the same things here. I'm also on facebook.
Fav Quotes: "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." -Helen Keller
"It's kinda fun to do the impossible." -Walt Disney
"What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger...well, it's true." -Drew Barrymore
"We write to taste life twice." -Anais Nin
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people." -Virginia Woolfe
"Hope, I know, is a fighter and a screamer." -Mary Oliver
"Once personal items hit the street their character changes. They go to the dark side. They become sex toys. They forget their home life. Leave them. They're better off." -Shway on my losing items in the Quarter
"Four of us have fake breasts, and three of us are real. Can you tell which ones?!" -a very drunk woman at my table
"Where's your car slash do you wanna get ice cream?" -Rachael
"Frat boy wants a little passed out pussy?" -Jake
"I got the AIDS! Catch it?" -Brandon R. (but not if it's airborne! lol)
“For my next miracle, I’m gonna turn water…into funk!” –Jesus, Family Guy
"If you don't want a bat bitch slap you'll shut up and launch the line" -Batman on Robot Chicken
"Can a woman really be mayor, or will she just bleed all over the city?" -Family Guy, Tom Tucker
"It's bedtime. And by 'bed', I mean 'ethnic', and by 'time', I mean 'cleansing'." -Robot Chicken Care Bears
"That's Cancer. Cancer the crab. Are you crabby? Crabby cause you got cancer? Who's crabby cause they got cancer?" -Reno 911
"My dream of being a chef is deader than the cat I'm sitting on." -Bender
"We're friends right? Friends steal things for their friends." -Coach McGirk
"This music makes me miss people I don't even know!" -Amanda who used to work at The Pot with me...
"That's what set my choo-choo train on fire." -Stephie
"Oh right, heteros use condoms. Cause of the pregnancy." -Max
"I shaved my legs for this?!" -Ariana
"Look, I push and you blow!" -Wayne, from Baton Rouge
"That's when you know you don't have a soul, you have a fondue pot." -Ricky
Turn Ons: intelligence, a like sense of humor, a weight more than my own without being obese, use of turn signals while driving, not barking, eats meat, enjoys South Park, saw and enjoyed Superbad
Turn Offs: drugs, drinking to excess, smoking, transvestites, christians, republicans, former teen idols
Favorite Websites: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic http://www.urbandictionary.com/ http://dirtycoast.com/home.php http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/74 http://www.heartless-bitches.com/ http://www.angryalien.com/ http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2007/06/real-old-testamen t.html http://www.explosm.net/comics/939/ http://www.stainedapron.com/index.htm http://marrusart.com/ http://www.colbertnation.com/
Places I've Traveled: Grand Canyon, Brice Canyon, Zion National Park, Las Vegas, San Diego, Montana, San Francisco, Sacramento, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Missouri, Florida, Smokey Mountains, New Orleans
Favorite Ice Creams: birthday cake remix from Coldstones, cherries jubilee from Baskin Robins, cherry garcia and turtle soup from Ben and Jerry's
Favorite New Orleans Resturants: Sweet Fire and Ice, Mona Lisa's, Commander's Palace, P.F. Chang's, Ming Palace, Bravos, El Gato Negro, Outback
Most Missed Things in CA: the ocean, In n' Out Burger, Juice it Up, Roadhouse Grill (mostly the bread from Roadhouse Grill...), Mimi's Cafe, Red Robin's freckled lemonade
Favorite Places in New Orleans: The French Quarter, Royal Street, Jackson Square, The W, The Pub, The Aquarium, The Audubon Zoo, AMC movies, Borders, Barnes and Noble, BSI Comics, Buffalo Billiards II, Storyville
Comic Strips I Like: (online) Penny Arcade, Cyanide and Happiness, Sinfest(offline) Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot, Pearls Before Swine(comic books) Fables, Sandman, Batman Hush, Y The Last Man, Identity Crisis, Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Batman Black and White
Lies We All Tell: Pants. Pants are such a damn lie. And you're probably lying right now.
Favorite Drinks: peach bellinis, ketel one screwdrivers, fuzzy navel, banging the captain, strawberry daiquiris, blueberry fields, mimosas, various specialty drinks at work, buttery nipple shots, desert wines
Radio Stations I Listen to in NOLA: 104.1, 95.5, B97, DIVA, 106.7, 101.9 (rarely though-they piss my off with that one song by MercyMe)
On Notice: hopeless romantic men, anime on Adult Swim, cookie scented candles, John Gery
Dead to Me: that lame ass Daredevil movie with Ben Affleck, diet ice cream, Red Lobster, people who drive Hondas, most things involving Micheal Bay, K-Ville